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Apply NowOur theme for Secondary Chapel in Term 4 is hope. I asked Yr 7-12 students: Is hope a fluffy, nice word, like a wish, that doesn’t really mean much? Or, is hope a serious word that means a lot? The vast majority said that we should take it seriously, and that we all need hope.
In life, we generally don’t understand or appreciate how important something is until we’ve lost it. A drink of water is not that amazing until you have gone two days without it. A sharp knife does not seem impressive until you only have butter knife to cut your steak.
Hope is not significant until you have understood hopelessness.
When we are hopeless, life gets dark. And when things get dark, we tend to give up.
Hope is that little bit of light that pushes away the dark. Hope helps us to keep going, to press on, to endure. No-one dreams of giving up, quitting, or throwing in the towel, but we can get there when we have no hope. This is why, in The Bible, so many people put their hope in Jesus, as they have understood the dark. They have understood hopelessness.
Over the coming weeks, we are unpacking hope by hearing from a variety of staff and students: How do we get it? Can hope be certain, or is it more like a wish? The Bible says Jesus provides hope, but what does that actually mean?
